When Samuel Houston Birdwell was born on 23 August 1860, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, his father, Henry Landers Birdwell, was 34 and his mother, Cynthia Anne Chism Hill, was 31. He married Mary A Jordan on 17 January 1884, in Falls, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Independence Township, Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, Burnet, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 18 December 1932, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
English: habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire named Birdwell, from Old English bridd ‘bird’ + wella ‘spring, stream’, or from Bridwell in Devon or Bridewell in Wiltshire, the first element of which may be an Old English word, brīd ‘surging’. The surname is now very rare in the British Isles.
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